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I am a composer and writer.

My compositional practice takes many forms, from solo repertoire to performance-installations, large-scale choral works to electroacoustic pieces. Broadly, I’m interested in aural limits, those that might be found both within and between listening and hearing, language and sense, interiority and exteriority, or real and imagined sounds. As such, my work is usually disquiet and unsettled in character, often comprising heartbeats, field recordings, detuned guitars, poetry, autotune, and fragmented, plaintive melodies.

I have worked with artists including Apartment House, Marsyas Trio, Octandre Ensemble, Terra Invisus, Jack Adler-McKean, Ryoko Akama, Roxanna Albayati, Lotte Betts-Dean, Kate Ledger, Neil Luck, Heather Roche, Sockethead, and Kathryn Williams. My compositional work has been programmed by a wide range of art and music organisations including ame, BBC Radio 3, East Street Arts, IKLECTIK, Leeds Lieder, Left Bank, Light Night Leeds, University of Leeds International Concert Series, The Hepworth Wakefield, Trinity Laban (UK), Volta (Belgium), CAMP (France), Akademie der Künste, Darmstadt Summer Courses, Die Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Hošek Contemporary, KM28 (Germany), KSYME (Greece), TU Dublin Conservatoire (Ireland), rainy days festival (Luxembourg), Levande, PlayLab (Sweden), AżTak Festival (Poland), Staller Center for the Arts and mise-en place (New York, USA). In April 2025, my album HEKATE’S VOICES was released through Sawyer Spaces.

My writing is generally concerned with contemporary music, covering issues such as listening, bodies, gender, and postcritique, and composers such as Jennifer Walshe, Annea Lockwood, Beat Furrer, and members of the Wandelweiser collective. My monograph, titled Aural Liminalities in New Music, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. I am the Co-Editor of Tempo: The Quarterly Review of New Music.

I hold a PhD in Music Composition and Aesthetics from the University of Leeds where I was supervised by Scott McLaughlin and Martin Iddon. This research was fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities. I passed my viva in October 2024 and my thesis received a commendation of Research Excellence from the Leeds Doctoral College. I am currently a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the University, funded by the Leeds Art and Humanities Research Institute.

I use he/they pronouns.

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Ed Cooper

Ed Cooper